Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 133

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over two hundred years ago, and they have taken prominent parts in all of the wars since that period. The father of our subject died in Illinois, in 1888. The mother, Emily (Walker) Smith, was a native of Williamstown, Vermont, descended from an old New England family. She died when our subject was but three years of age.

The latter attained his majority in Illinois, where he was, practically, reared and educated in the state normal school of Illinois. He sub- sequently taught school two years, going to Kansas soon after he had reached his twenty- first year. Soon after this he was in Denver, Colorado, engaged in mining, which occupation he pursued six or seven years, and the follow- ing seven years he was in California, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, engaged in various lines of business. He came to Spokane in the spring of 1887 and followed the dairy business in company with his brother, Edward. In 1891 he arrived in Wenatchee, and devoted his atten- tion to dairying and ranching. Subsequently he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, for four years, was in the ice cream and con- fectionery business. Going, thence to Seattle he built a house and invested in property in that city, but returned to Wenatchee, where at pres- ent he resides. He has four brothers, Edward F., Justus K., Joseph and Bert, and three sisters, Josephine, Addie and Lida, single, and resid- ing with her mother in California.

At Colorado Springs, Colorado, July II, 1875, our subject was married and the fruit of this union is two boys, Irving W. and Theodore C., the elder of whom, Theodore, 20 years old, is a rising electrician of Seattle, while the younger, Irving, 17 years of age, is with his par- ents on the ranch. Mr. Smith is a member of the Free Methodist church and politcally a Pro- hibitionist.

CHARLES G. COOPER was born in Scio township, Washington county, Michigan on April 27. 1863, being the son of Charles and Emma Cooper, who were born in England. Our subject was educated in the schools of Michi- gan and then taught there for three years. At the age of thirteen he united with the Methodist church. In the spring of 1887, he came to Washington and the following fall to Wenat- chee, where he taught school for three terms.

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On November 12, 1892, occurred the mar- riage of Mr. Cooper and Miss Pearl G. Blair. The fruit of this union is the following named children : Rachel Estella, born February 28, 1896, and George Blair, born October 16, 1897.

Mr. Cooper has followed farming and fruit raising since coming here. He is a member of the Church of God in Wenatchee. In the years of 1903 and 1904. Mr. Cooper made a tour of the east and came home by way of southern Cal- ifornia, where he spent one winter with his fam- ily. At the date of this writing, A. D., 1904, March 25, Mr. Cooper resides one and one- fourth miles west from Wenatchee.

ZADOK A. LANHAM, one of the popular and influential citizens of Wenatchee, success- fully divides his attention between fruit and stock raising. The modern improvements now upon his beautiful place, and contemplated, will place it in the first rank among the more pre- tentious homes of Central Washington.

He was born March 22, 1849, in that por- tion of Virginia that has since been cut off and renamed West Virginia. His father, Jeremiah Lanham, descended from one of the oldest and most aristocratic of the Virginia families, died in September, 1883. His mother, Elizabeth (Crites) Lanham, was also a Virginian, of Ger- man ancestory. She passed away in 1887.

Until the age of twenty-six Zadok A. Lan- ham was reared and educated in West Virginia and then turned his footsteps westward. He first went to Leadville, Colorado, where for four or five years he was engaged in mining. Thence he pushed on to Arizona, New Mexico and California, working six months at Fresno at the trade of a carpenter. After passing a few months in the Puget Sound country. he came to his present location, one and a half miles from Wenatchee. This was in 1883. He then filed on the homestead which he has since successfully cultivated.

In the line of stock industry Mr. Lanham winters from sixty-five to seventy head of cat- tle, owns a fine registered bull which captured several medals at county fairs, and has every convenience for successfully exploiting the cat- tle enterprise. In 1902 he gathered from his twenty-three-acre orchard eight thousand boxes of apples. He has, also, fifteen acres in alfalfa.

At the Buffalo Exposition he carried off the gold, silver and bronze medals for apples in 1901.

Our subject has four brothers : John R., a Wenatchee merchant, and one of the stock- holders of the W. T. Rarey Company ; Enos B., Josiah and Ephriam. He has four sisters, El- len, Catherine, Lottie and Olive.

At Ellensburg. Washington, February 13, 1890, Mr. Lanham was united in marriage to Clara V. Peterson, a native of West Virginia. Her father, H. M. Peterson, was a Virginian, as was her mother. Mrs. Lanham has two brothers, Lewis and Miles, Missouri farmers, and two sisters, Lee and Georgia. To Mr. and Mrs. Lanham no children have been born.

For their future home a new Queen Ann cottage is in process of erection, estimated to cost three thousand dollars. It will be provided with electric lights, hot air furnace and other modern and sanitary improvements.

Our subject is one of the leading Republi- cans of the state, an active party worker, and has been a delegate to the county conventions since he first located in the vicinity.

WENDELL E. STEVENS, the pioneer merchant of Wenatchee. Chelan county, located here as early as 1886. At present he is engaged in the fruit and stock business. Born in Os- wego, New York, November 6, 1856, he is the son of Elisha and Charlotte ( Wiltse) Stevens, both natives of New York state. The father was born on the old Stevens farm, the home- stead for many generations of the Stevens fam- ily. The Wiltse family, ancestors of the mother of our subject, has for a great many years been a prominent one in Cayuga county, New York.

Wendell E. Stevens, the subject of this ar- article, was graduated from the state normal school, at Oswego, New York, and on reaching his majority began teaching school. This he continued for five terms, at the conclusion of which he came to the Puget Sound country, and became proprietor of a railroad boarding house, for the accommodation of the Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company. In this vocation he accumulated a profit of five hun- dred dollars a month, and he continued the bus- iness five years. Mr. Stevens then located in

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"old Wenatchee," engaging in the general mer- chandise business, the first one to do so. He built a large, two-story store building, which he has since converted into a barn. With the ad- vent of the railroad, business increased rapidly, and Mr. Stevens disposed of his interest in the mercantile enterprise, and directed his attention to fruit and stock raising. He cultivates fifty acres, a part of the old Milligan ranch, which he owns. Milligan, one of the earliest settlers, was drowned in the Columbia river. He has thirty acres in alfalfa and ten acres of profitable bearing orchard, mainly apples. He has never competed for prizes, but received two prizes from the committee on fruit at the Buffalo Ex- position, for a box of apples he had forwarded for free distribution. He owns fifteen head of cattle and last winter he fed one hundred head of horses. Mr. Stevens has two brothers, Carl- ton and Clarence, and two sisters, Lorissa and Edna.

At Wenatchee, in 1893, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Grace Blair, the father, mother and sisters of whom are men- tioned elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have beeen born three children, Wendell, aged ten, Ruth, seven, and Vera, three years old.

Although by no means an active politician, Mr. Stevens is in line with the principles of the Republican party, and is interested in its suc- cess.

HIRAM G. BILLS, postmaster and gen- eral merchant of Monitor, Chelan county, is a Virginian, born in Wheeling, February 25. 1859. His father, Boaz Bills, was a native of Virginia, and served honorably in the Eighty- first Illinois Infantry, during the Civil War. While in the service he met with a peculiar ad- venture which came perilously near having a tragic conclusion. While on a march, being quite exhausted, he stopped at a store to procure a glass of milk. A woman who was present told him that he had the "yellow jaundice," and offered him some medicine, which he accepted. He soon fell in the road, poisoned by sufficient arsenic to kill ten men. Prompt medical at- tendance saved his life, but, owing to the fact that his attempted murder was the work of a woman he would never divulge her name. He died at Pendleton, Oregon, in 1881. The

mother, Mary A. (Campbell) Bills, was also a native of Virginia, dying in 1878, at the age of fifty-two years. Her family once owned a large tract of valuable oil land, now in the possession of the Standard Oil Company. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a surgeon in the federal army during the War of 1812. He came to Virginia with Lord Fairfax, to whose family he was related. He died at the age of ninety-two years.

Perry county, Illinois, was the scene of our subject's earliest exploits. Until the age of fourteen he attended the public schools, and then learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he has worked at various periods ever since. In 1880 he went to Oregon and purchased a farm in Umatilla county, near Pendleton. Follow- ing several other land speculations he came to the Mission valley, locating at Mission, where he was the pioneer merchant, and third post- master of the place. In the fall of 1901 he purchased two hundred acres, lying in Fair- view canyon. Water is furnished from three generous springs, and it is one of the finest properties in the valley. He has three broth- ers, John A., Robert C. and Alexander T.

Our subject was married April 23, 1884, at Pendleton, Oregon, to Minnie A. Coats, a na- tive of Missouri. Her father, John, was born in England, and her mother, Rachel (Creason) Coats, was a native of Missouri. Mrs. Bills has one brother, John, now living in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Bills have eight children, Charles, Frank G., Fred, Chester, Arthur, Clarence, Ethel and Jessie. Fraternally, he is a member of the M. W. of A., and the A. O. U. W., while in politics the Republican principles appeal most strongly to him.

LEROY WRIGHT was born in Mt. Pleas- ant, Iowa, August 6, 1870. His father, Will- iam S. Wright, is a native of Indiana, where he was born August 14. 1836, and at present re- sides at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. His father, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was born at Washington, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1805. The wife of the latter, Margaret (Strawther) Wright, was a native of Rock- ingham county, Virginia. The mother of our subject, Juliet M. (Troutman) Wright, de- scendant of an old American family, was born

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in Pennsylvania, December 2, 1839, dying Jan- uary 24, 1872, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. The Wright family were quite prominent in the up- building of Iowa, an uncle of William S., Judge George G. Wright, having been judge of the supreme court and United States Senator.

February 14, 1899, our subject was united in marriage, at Waterville, Douglas county, to Mildred France, daughter of Dow G. and Julia A. (Pramer) France. The father, a native of New York, was born July 21, 1837, and served three years in the Civil War, in Company A. Tenth Wisconsin Volunteers, and the mother March 12, 1857. The latter now resides with our subject.

Until the age of twenty-two years Leroy Wright was reared in Iowa, where he was edu- cated in the public schools and Howe's academy, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. In 1892 he came to Wash- ington and filed on a claim near Waterville, Douglas county, Washington. This ranch he cultivated five years, devoting the same princi- pally to wheat. Subsequent to proving up on his claim he came to Wenatchee, and en- gaged in the produce business, which he has engaged in ever since. He owns a handsome · two-story house one block from the business section of Wenatchee, one of the finest edifices in the place, and supplied with all modern im- provements. He, also, owns a young, ten-acre orchard near Wenatchee bridge. Our subject has two full brothers, John, a merchant of Sher- idan, Wyoming, and Harvey, residing at Priest River, Idaho. He also has three half brothers, George G., Roscoe and Frank. Mrs. Wright, the wife of our subject, has seven brothers liv- ing, Orpheus, William, Charles, Ellsworth, Jesse, Leroy and Clyde, and two sisters, Flora and Ella. She has one child, May, aged two years.

Mr. Wright is a member of the Woodmen of the World, Wenatchee. His political affilia- tions are with the Republican party, but he is not an active partisan. He is one of the pro- gressive, public-spirited men of Chelan county. closely identified with the best interests of his community, and highly esteemed by all.

JEREMIAH MCFARLAND, one of the well-known and highly esteemed citizens of Chelan county. is engaged in fruit raising and the real estate business at Mission, Washington.

He was born in Lorain county, Ohio, August 4, 1837. His father, James McFarland, of Scotch ancestry, came to the United States when a young man, and settled in Philadelphia. He was a railroad contractor, dying in 1844. The mother, Julia A. (Gilbert) McFarland. was born in Philadelphia, and died in 1843. She was of Scotch-English descent.

At the tender age of seven years, young McFarland found himself thrown upon the world to make his own way as best he could. He lived with a number of farmers who, while satisfied to accept his work, were very reluctant to afford him the means of obtaining even the most meagre education. Consequently, until he was eighteen years old, he did not learn to read. At the age of fifteen he joined Van Am- burg's circus, and became an acrobat. At the breaking out of the Civil War our subject, as- sociated with a man named Robbins, enrolled a company for the Seventeenth Illinois Infantry. He served three years under Colonel Baldwin, and was in a number of serious engagements, including Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, Fort Donelson, Corinth and others. At Shiloh he lost two fingers, besides receiving two wounds in the head and a flesh wound in the leg. After the war he went to Illinois, and was in the saloon business two years, but as this was dis- tasteful to him he went to farming. From Illinois he removed to Mckean county, Penn- sylvania, where for the following three years he was engaged in the mercantile business, thence to Pembina county, North Dakota, in mission- ary work for the Baptist Publication Company, of Philadelphia, and for the succeeding nine years he devoted his attention to organizing Sunday schools. Coming to Wenatchee, in February, 1894, he purchased his present home in Mission, a story and a half cottage, and five acres of land. The property is now worth five thousand dollars and Mr. McFarland easily clears six hundred dollars per annum from the place. Aside from the orchard the land is de- voted to pasture, poultry, bees, etc. He has raised apricots measuring nine inches in cir- cumference, and took five first premiums at the Chelan county fair of 1903. Mr. McFarland and his accomplished wife are artists, and have produced some beautiful landscapes portraying the picturesque scenery in their locality.

They were married at Rixford, Mckean county, Pennsylvania, the bride being Sarah

MRS. J. 'MCFARLAND.

RESIDENCE OF J. MCFARLAND.

J. McFARLAND.

MRS. IRA FREER.

IRA FREER.

JOHN HOLDEN.

GEORGE T. RICHARDSON.

CHARLES A. SCHINDLER.

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Jones, a native of Canada. She has three brothers and two sisters, James, Barton and John, and Jane Trarris, and Catherine Wright. Mr. McFarland has one brother, James. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, and Past Com- mander of the G. A. R., and at present chap- lain of the local post. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church.

IRA FREER, an enterprising and success- ful merchant of Mission, Chelan county, al- though still a young man, may be classed with the pioneers of Washington. He is the son of Harvey and Mary ( Brothers) Freer, both na- tives of Ohio, where our subject was born, in Ashland county, February 2, 1863.

For many generations the Freers have been influential people in Ohio, engaging in mercan- tile, banking and professional pursuits. The father, Harvey Freer, died in 1900; the mother still resides in Ohio. This state, also, was the home of our subject until he reached the age of twenty-one years. On September 12, 1884, he landed in Wenatchee, and lived with his uncles, Frank and David Freer, pioneer settlers of the Wenatchee valley. Three years from that pe- riod he pre-empted a claim, cut logs at Pine Flat, floated them down the river, purchased a thousand feet of lumber at forty dollars a thou- sand, paid twenty-five cents a pound for nails, and erected a substantial house on his claim. He raised a little fruit, but the market was un- certain, and it was not until the railroad invaded the locality that he began to realize a living from his place. He sold out later, bought an- other place, and this he traded for city prop- erty in Mission. An attack of appendicitis laid him up for two years, during which time he accomplished little or nothing. He served one year as road supervisor, and in June, 1898. en- gaged in the general mercantile business, which he still conducts. He carries about twelve thousand dollars' worth of stock. Mr. Freer has four brothers and two sisters, Bently, Joseph, James, Alberta, Levina Oswalt, and Cordelia Middaugh.

To Miss Lydia R. Binehower, a native of Ashland county, Ohio, Mr. Freer was united in marriage in 1882. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, dying in 1901. Her mother, a native of Wurtemberg. Germany, is still living.

She has one brother and five sisters, Martin L., Sarah A. Smith, Christena A. Craeger, Eliza C., Henrietta C., and Mary A. She has one child, Cordelia A., wife of Philip Bellinger, elsewhere mentioned in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Freer are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a Republican, politically.

JOHN HOLDEN, who is now one of the prosperous and intelligent farmers of Chelan county, was born in Brown county, Ohio, on March 31, 1848, the son of Richard and Cath- erine (Fritz) Holden, natives of England and Ohio, respectively. The father died in 1876 and the mother in 1853. Our subject grew up in the Buckeye state and there received a com- mon school education from the schools near his home. In 1871 he thirsted to try the world for himself and accordingly started out. He soon landed in Sacramento and after six months there went to the mines in Nevada county. He continued to labor there until 1876, when he journeyed to Walla Walla, Washington. He farmed in that county for seven years, then re- moved to Ritzville, where he continued in the same occupation for ten years. It was 1894 that Mr. Holden came to Leavenworth and since then he has been one of the substantial residents of this region. He is engaged in the draying business.

For twenty-one years, Mr. Holden has been school director and he has done very much for the advancement of educational facilities. He has been constable for several terms and is at present deputy sheriff of Chelan county.

While in Walla Walla county, Washington, in 1884, Mr. Holden married Miss Carrie E. Farnsworth and to them were born three chil- dren, Ira Oliver, Mary Mable, and Sara Etta. Mrs. Holden died July 1, 1894, aged thirty- nine years, five months and twenty-seven days. Mr. Holden has the following brothers and sis- ters, Robert J., who was killed in Murfreesboro while in the army; Richard, who served three years in the army; Thomas; George; Henry ; Bazil; James, who served ten years in the regu- lar army and died in the Philippines : Sara, wife of Jolin Dederick, of Madisonville, Ohio : Cath- erine, single: Ellen, wife of Mr. McDonald. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Holden is a member of the Foresters and the Good Templars and in

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political alliances pulls with the Republicans. He and his wife are faithful members of the Christian church.

GEORGE T. RICHARDSON is a native of the Old Bay State and was born on January 2, 1847, the son of Sanford L. and Elizabeth (Stone) Richardson. The father was born in Vermont and died when seventy-six years of age. The mother was born in New England. When a child, our subject left Massachusetts with his parents and settled in Tuscola county, Michigan, where the father did farming. George T. received his education from the public schools, then went to Kansas, where he lived for seven years. He returned to Mchigan and seventeen years ago came to the sound country and lived at Eagle Harbor for two years, when he came to Chelan county and filed on a timber culture of one hundred and sixty acres. He proved up on the same and bought thirty acres adjoining. He has thirty-eight acres under cul- tivation and a fine orchard of ten acres.

George T. Richardson has one brother, Lewis, and four half brothers and four half sis- ters, named as follows: Howard, Sanford, Frank, Willie, Addie, Amelia, Emma, and Nellie. He was married in Barton county, Kan- sas to Miss Ida Oliva Meacham, on November 27, 1877, and thirteen children have been born to this union, Walter S., now in Alaska; Alice E .; Phil E., deceased; Leon H .; Elsie V .; Lewis; George H .; Sanford L .; Roy E .; Oscar P .; Norman E., Victor, and Horace. Mrs. Rich- ardson's father and mother were pioneers to Kansas and went to that state in 1872. Our subject determined to enlist in the army and walked thirty-six miles on a cold winter's day, for that purpose but was denied the privilege on account of not being tall enough.

Mr. Richardson is a Republican from prin- ciple and has always taken the interest in politi- cal matters that becomes a good citizen.

CHARLES A. SCHINDLER of the firm of Schindler & Sons, at Chelan Falls, Washing- ton, was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 7, 1880. His father, Charles Schindler was born in Germany and owns property at Barnes-

ville, Minnesota. The mother, Anna ( Moon) Schindler, was born in Paris, France. The other children of the family are August, Christ, Lizzie, Dora, Lina and Cecilia. Charles A. re- ceived his education in his native state and re- mained with his father until November 6, 1900, when he came to Spokane. After that he visited Wenatchee, spending one month at the "home of the big red apple." From there, he jour- neyed to Seattle seeking a location for a brew- ery. After a while he was fireman on the Columbia and Puget Sound railroad at Seattle, then came to Lake Chelan. He purchased a lo- cation for a brewery at Chelan Falls, then re- turned to Seattle and pursued his former busi- ness until November 4, 1901. At that time, he returned to Chelan Falls and built the Chelan Falls brewery, which he is handling now in conjunction with his father, the firm being known as Schindler & Son. The plant has a capacity of two thousand barrels per year and is first class in every respect. Mr. Schindler. has ascertained that the water at Chelan is especially adapted for the manufacture of beer and the result is that he is producing a first class article. Mr. Schindler followed farming in the east, while his father was a skillful brewer and operated in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and St. Paul.

Mr. Schindler is still a member of the order of jolly bachelors. He belongs to the Catholic Foresters and also to the Catholic church. Po- litically, he is a Republican and always takes a keen interest in the issues of the day.

HECTOR PATTERSON, who is now identified with the fruit industry of Chelan county, resides near Mission. He was born in Scotland, June 16, 1845, but came with his par- ents to Canada when he was only a year old. His parents, Hector and Catherine (Love) Pat- terson, were both natives of Scotland. The father died in Canada in 1895, and he was sur- vived by his widow only three years. Our sub- ject was reared in Canada and attended the dis- trict schools there, improving his opportunities so far as possible, and when sixteen years of age he went to Saginaw, Michigan, where he found employment in the lumber woods. Eigh- teen months thereafter he removed to Wiscon- sin where he became a clerk for a large mill- ing concern, and in this work, and various other

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employments, he continued until 1876, making his home principally in Oshkosh. In this lat- ter city he was graduated from a business col- lege, having previously attended a similar in- stitution in Milwaukee. Coming to the Puget Sound country our subject worked in the lum- ber district three years, and then filed on a claim lying on the Nooksack river, in Whatcom county. Within six months he was flooded out, and he then came across the mountains and was in the service of the Northern Pacific railway company three years. In 1882 Mr. Patterson entered the employment of Shellworth & Com- pany. of Walla Walla, being assigned to their Clark's Fork store, as head bookkeeper. Fol- lowing a short period passed in Ainsworth, Washington, he came to Waterville, Douglas county, and identified himself with the stock raising industry, fifteen years. He then re- moved to his present location, one and one- quarter miles from Mission, and purchased twenty acres of land, now having five acres set out to orchard, and which he intends to in- crease.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 133

Author: Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History Number of Pages: 992

Author:
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
Number of Pages: 992